THE Aboriginal community of the Cairns rainforest harbours a surprising secret: the story of Australia's pygmy people.

Common and pygmy hippopotamuses can be imported to Australian zoos after a 40-year hiatus. Werribee Zoo plans to import a male common hippo in 2025. Pygmy and common hippos are bound for Australia ...

Bushfires destroyed almost half the bushland on Australia’s Kangaroo Island last summer, devastating animal habitats. Ecologists feared the island’s population of little pygmy possums – the ...

Each baleen plate, loaned from the South Australian Museum, contained up to three to four years’ worth of data to assemble a picture of the pygmy right whale’s diet and movements across nearly ...

Hippo survived for 5 years in the Australian outback. Hunters going after pigs in Australia’s Northwest Territories got a big surprise when they shot an animal they mistook for a pig, only to ...

The pygmy right whale is an enigma in the whale world. Not only is it the smallest of the characteristically large filter-feeding baleen whales, but it's also rarely sighted and seldom studied ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western Australian coast, new research led by the Australian Institute of Marine ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western Australian coast, new research led by the Australian Institute of Marine ...

Scientists have sighted what could be the youngest pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) ever seen in Australian waters. The calf was photographed by spotter pilot Tiffany Klein who ...

There are fewer than 2,000 endangered mountain pygmy-possums left in the wild. BLUE MOUNTAINS, Australia: Fossils formed more than 20 million years ago are helping to save some of Australia’s ...

Pygmy and common hippos are bound for Australia as a 40-year import hiatus on the vulnerable African herbivores is lifted. Australian zoos play a "vital" role in the conservation of the species ...